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Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Samsung is
celebrating ten years of Galaxy S flagships next year and the company is
planning a new anniversary smartphone to mark the occassion. At first, we heard
about a trio of new phones with up to three cameras at the rear, and later we
had a confirmation from DJ Koh, the Mobile Division CEO that none of them would
be foldable - this will be an entirely different smartphone.

Xiaomi is yet to
announce the Redmi Note 6 Pro, intended for the Indian market. Earlier leaked
specs suggested the phone will have Snapdragon 660 and 4/64 GB memory
combination. Thanks to some leaked photos of the retail box of the phone and
the device itself, we know more specs. The Redmi Note 6 Pro will have a 6.26”
screen with a notch, four cameras and a huge battery.

The display will come with 19:9 ratio and
Full HD+ resolution that translates to 2280 x 1080 pixels. The main camera
setup will be 12 MP + 5 MP with 1.4µm pixel size and dual pixel autofocus,
which looks like what Mi 8 SE has on its back. The selfie snappers are 20 MP +
2 MP and both secondary cams appear to be for background blur in Portrait mode.

Friday, 22 June 2018

Google has released
its own podcasting app for Android, called Google Podcasts. The app is now
available for free on the Google Play Store. There is no iOS app available at
the moment nor have they announced any plans on releasing one.

Google Podcasts is
a very simple podcasting app. You can search and subscribe to podcasts and
Google includes a fairly robust library of podcasts so you'll find almost
anything here. Once subscribed, episodes can be downloaded for offline playback
or just streamed. Progress syncs across your Google account and you can
continue playing on the Google Home where you left on your phone.

Apart from that, the app doesn't do much. You
can't import an OPML file so if you use another podcasting file you have no
option but to re-subscribe to all your podcasts, which for some could be many.
You can adjust playback speed but you can't skip over silences like some other
podcasting apps (Google claims this feature is present but I couldn't find it
anywhere). You also can't skip to next or previous chapter within the podcast
or even see a list of chapters while playing.

Huawei is one of
the biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world and thus needs to become less
reliant hardware produced outside the company. The in-house production should
help bring the cost of devices down and maybe try to compete with Qualcomm's
dominance in the mobile market. The latest news about an upcoming Kirin SoC
might change all that. And no, we are not talking about the Kirin 980.

With its newest HiSilicon 970 chipset, the
company gets closer to Qualcomm's top-shelf chips, but still, the Kirin 970
isn't on par with the Snapdragon 845 in terms of raw performance, although it
brought world's first AI chip on board. Sources say that the still unannounced
Kirin 980 will finally be able to compete with Qualcomm's flagship chipset
thanks to the advanced 7nm manufacturing process from TSMC, which would
probably be the key selling point of the rumored Mate 20.

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Today Samsung has
decided to bring the 128GB and 256GB Galaxy S9 and S9+ to the USA. Both
iterations will become available to pre-order tomorrow, on May 1. They will be
released on May 18, exclusively at Samsung.com.

We assume the
company has surveyed the market and figured out there wouldn't be a lot of
demand for these storage versions. Otherwise, selling them exclusively through
its online store wouldn't make a lot of sense.

Today Samsung has
decided to unveil the Galaxy A6 and A6+. The mid-range duo brings the company's
signature bezel-starved Super AMOLED Infinity Display to a whole new price
point, along with its 18.5:9 aspect ratio.

The Galaxy A6's
display measures 5.6" diagonally, and has 720x1,480 resolution. The phone
has a 16 MP f/1.7 rear shooter and a 16 MP f/1.9 selfie snapper with an LED
flash of its own. The handset is powered by an octa-core 1.6 GHz CPU, aided by
3/4GB of RAM and 32/64GB of internal storage, depending on which exact model
you buy. In any case note that the device supports microSD expansion, with
cards up to 256GB in size.

Tuesday, 27 March 2018

It seems Xiaomi is
keen to produce every type of hardware you can think of, now adding a gaming
laptop to its roster of devices.

The Mi Gaming Laptop is a 15.6-inch device
with a 7th gen Intel Core i7 or i5 CPU, a 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD and either an
Nvidia GTX 1060 or an Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti. The more capable i7/GTX1060 model
comes with 16GB of RAM, while the i5/1050Ti units will have 8GB.